hellfire103
@hellfire103@lemmy.ca
Young humanoid in the UK. Proudly LGBT. Slava Ukraini! | they/them
Formerly of:
- Comment on Why is this the only working proxy for Twitter... 3 days ago:
Looks like it is. I had noticed a few Mastodon and Misskey instances blocking poa.st, but I didn’t realise it was the same as poast.org.
Good thing there are other instances now!
- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 4 days ago:
My HP’s hinge broke, too. I had to pack the entire back of the case with putty in order to fix it, and it’s still not quite right.
- Comment on Just Plain Terrifying 5 days ago:
I know. I’ve worked with it myself, and I once accidentally inhaled a small volume of it.
A-Level chemistry, innit.
- Comment on Just Plain Terrifying 6 days ago:
HCl‽ Jaysus…
- Comment on Anon has a typical everyday average British morning 1 week ago:
American flag checks out.
- Comment on A future sci-fi writers never could've imagined 1 week ago:
Last I heard, the CCP did a bit of social engineering and got a load of TikTokkers to post videos in juggalo makeup in order to retrain their facial recognition software.
I don’t recall if it was successful, but it happened.
- Comment on Leaked photo 1 week ago:
That’s far too good for AI. It has to be PhotoShopped.
- Comment on "Gluten Free" has officially gone too far. 2 weeks ago:
And yet my dad still has trouble finding anything that won’t kill him if he eats it.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 3 weeks ago:
You were, but it appears OP is running Windows in a VM on Linux.
- Comment on Bunch of Muppets 4 weeks ago:
I want to see this.
- Comment on Which is which? 4 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on Which is which? 4 weeks ago:
Drones also maintain the temperature of the nest/hive.
Additionally, carpenter bee drones defend the hive (although they don’t actually have any defences, and therefore do this by repeatedly bumping into the adversary); and Asian honey bee drones help to kill murder hornets, by enveloping them (alongside other bees) and essentially cooking them to death.
- Comment on Which is which? 4 weeks ago:
To be honest, the gender binary makes even less sense for bees (as well as wasps, ants, hornets, termites, and other hive insects) than it does for humans.
Hive insects have three sexes: queens (analogous to females), drones (analogous to males), and workers (which could be analogous to intersex people, but this doesn’t really translate into human biology).
- Comment on Which is which? 4 weeks ago:
This is literally the only reason I’m considering a PhD: I can put “Dr.” on official documents and it’ll be accepted.
- Comment on Shoelace: Alternative frontend for Instagram's Threads 4 weeks ago:
Let’s just hope ⓜⓔⓣⓐ don’t completely kill this project, like they did with Bibliogram.
- Comment on & God said, "He whom smelt it, delt it." 5 weeks ago:
Well, I mean you can probably blame Earth for a lot of issues; although I suppose it’s the population and not the planet itself.
- Comment on Non-binary 5 weeks ago:
At its simplest definition, this creates a ternary.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 18 comments
- Comment on Bottoms up! 1 month ago:
- Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports saynews.sky.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 45 comments
- Comment on British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float 1 month ago:
Looks like the RPi 5 I got a month ago will be my last…
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 21 comments
- Comment on Lower your emissions 1 month ago:
Global warming is bloat
- Comment on Japan anon complains about Google 1 month ago:
Privacy, for one thing. I don’t use Google, Bing, Windows, or any Meta software*, and Yandex aren’t much different.
Security, though, is another thing. I live in a NATO country, and I would imagine the Russian government are monitoring Yandex (and other RUnet services). Frankly, I think contributing any data to such a government would be against my interests.
There’s also a lot of censorship on RUnet. Yeah, Google has that too, but Mojeek and Brave Search do not.
TL;DR: Google is data-hungry and supplies data to the NSA; Yandex is data-hungry and supplies data to the Kremlin; Mojeek and Brave Search are good; DDG and Startpage are the best for the average user.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 month ago:
I really needed to here this. Thank you.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 month ago:
I can’t decide if I want to die or emigrate.
- Comment on Japan anon complains about Google 1 month ago:
I rarely have to use it, but for me it works every time.
- Comment on Japan anon complains about Google 1 month ago:
I don’t even care if the results are good. I’m not about to use any part of RUnet.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 month ago:
Amateurs! It’s gotta be silver!
- Looks nice in jewellery
- Antimicrobial properties
- An essential component of camera film
- Highly conductive (e.g. used for electrodes and thermal paste in computing)
- Catalyst in many chemical reactions
- Used to make mirrors
- A critical component of solar panels
- The only metal capable of incapacitating werewolves, and also somewhat effective against vampires